Killed For His Rogue Mate, I Choose My Enemy

Pain flooded my senses, blinding me as I choked, the metallic scent and taste of blood suffocating me.

I was dying.

Fighting back the pain and tears, I forced myself to look up at the man that caused all of it.

Standing a few metres away from me, Daniel, my mate, looked at me coldly.

Moments ago was our mating ceremony. We had just taken the ceremonial wine when I collapsed. To my horror, everyone else did the same. I clung to him in panic when he suddenly backed away. Only then did I notice that he was completely fine and unsurprised.

“Daniel...” I choked out, not wanting to believe it. “y-you...poison...”

“Yes,” He said, “I poisoned the wine. You and everyone else here are as good as dead. Don't bother fighting it Raena, there's nothing you can do."

I coughed up blood. His blatant confirmation gutted me. How could he?

Why?

A figure appeared at the corner of my eye, moving towards my line of vision. I realised it was a young woman. A rogue.

To my shock, Daniel reached out, pulling her into an affectionate embrace, smiling at her tenderly in a way he'd never looked at me.

“Raena, there's someone I'd like you to meet.” Daniel said, turning to face me, “This is Dina, daughter and leader of the Rogue clan...and my true mate.”

My heart stopped. Impossible. How could he betray me, his pack and family for the Rogues, especially knowing what they were capable of?

“You...betrayed....pack...”

“For her, I would do anything.” Daniel defended, pulling her closer, “She is my mate. Nobody else can compare with her. Not the pack and especially not you.”

My heart broke instantly. If she was his true mate, what was I? What about our mate bond, the affection we shared over the years?

The woman suddenly pulled away from him to look at me. A bright, venomous laughter filled the air as the woman looked at me.

“The Starlet Pack Luna, now driven to this pitiful state. How does it feel to know that your entire life was a lie?” she asked, taking a step forward, “Let me state it clearly for you. Daniel and I have been working together from the start. The only woman he's ever loved was me. Every busy schedule he had, every moment he was absent, he was with me all along. He never liked you. To him, you were a silly, malleable child he could take advantage of. The only reason he married you was to ensure I would take over your pack."

"Now," she gestured to the bodies slumped around the hall "with the majority of your pack members dead, my men have already infiltrated and killed the rest.”

Horror filled me, glaring at the man who treated me tenderly for the past four years. Even with the truth laid before me I looked up at him.

It was like seeing him for the first time. Gone was the gentleness I was